True Crime: On the Topic of Combat

To answer the first 3 questions:

1.good combat is combat that isnt clunky/overly complicated to do.True crime was a great example of it not only because you had move sets and different attacks, but the fact that they gave you a finisher depending on what buttons you pressed...thats phenomenal!gta's combat was accessible,but it was just too generic...and it only got worse i.e gta iv...nobody(at least in california) doesnt fight like they do in liberty city.terrible terrible terrible.

2.I always that true crime was underrated despite the bugs/glitches that engulfed that game...especially NYC.nyc had great fighting styles,interesting police calls/busts,good story,good shooting and decent driving in a world that looked good for its time!if the game had more polish,it wouldve been breath taking.

3. from what it looks like, the new true crime theyre crafting is coming a long wonderfully.what they need to beware of is pulling off the bulltime in that game just right because the bullet time in NYC got f*cked over pretty bad.another thing they need to polish up is the sprinting/running because in NYC, the footchases for me dragged on soo long it was like something out of a benny hill episode(listen to the music and imagine chasing a guy in that game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_RkYXlmXE).something else they should keep in mind is the feel of the city.true crime LA was bland blocks called buildings, and true crime nyc was a bit better,but with tons of copy and paste buildings(or at least what was inside of them ex. stores,clubs,warehouses etc).

bottom line,get the combat polished up,make the gunplay/bullet time working smoothly,make the driving do able,making interesting police calls/missions, and make different interesting places to visit and this game will be amongst my favorites :)

I will only be able to answer three of the following questions:

1.
The combat needs to be deep and engaging, incorporating lots of ways to overcome your opponent and vice versa. It doesn't need to feel like a backdrop of all the other "core" mechanics. GTA IV had a very weak hand-to-hand fighting system, it needed to feel as if you were actually engaging in a street fight with someone. Being able to pick up things lying on the ground and using them to beat your opponent's face in would've been a great thing to add. The shooting mechanics were done fairly well but, it could've been polished a whole lot more and the cover system was below average in many ways.

2.
Primarily here in the west, the Yakuza fighting system is very underappreciated. It incorporates many ways to overwhelm your opponent and make you feel like a genuine badass. The RPG elements in the said system also make the experience more rewarding and makes the player want to explore all they can in the fun fighting system.

3.
From playing the last two True Crime games, UFG has alot to focus on to make this series good and worthy of public attention. In the last two games the environment was rather dull and boring, not allowing enough interaction and the player didn't really feel as if he had an impact on the environment as he/she progressed. I'm a little worried about the driving mechanic, in the last True Crime game, New York City, the driving was just plain horrible. The cars drove to sloppily and the chase sequences were often a pain. One thing that does spark my interest is that UFG borrowed some mechanics from Pursuit Force (which I really enjoyed) into the driving. This improvement could provide for some rather neat chase sequences.

I'd nominate the fighting system in The Warriors as a good example of close combat in a sandbox done right.

It's not too complex, but it's extremely robust and allows you easily to handle different situations. It was also very hard-hitting which is another crucial point for hand-to-hand in any game - you don't want to feel like you're gently wafting kicks like an over-choreographed dance routine. If it's up close and personal, make sure you reflect that.

Interactivity with your environment, so long as it's done through a very simple interface and not four different buttons held down to pick up a brick or anything, is also a great feature. Everyone likes to go a little Jackie Chan and improvise a beatdown with a chair or a lamp or whatever.

I as well will only be answering the first three.

1. As far as open world combat goes, I want something that is fresh, and fun. I lost interest in GTA4 as far as combat because it was just duck and shoot. Games like Red Faction: Guerrilla and the upcoming Just Cause 2 hold my interest because they feature an intuitive destruction model and grappling hook system respectively that are both refreshing as far as combat goes, and experimental. To me, a good sandbox game requires that the player be able to experiment in fun ways. You can do this in the GTA games, sure, but to me it's never in a refreshing way, so I lose interest fairly quickly.

2. Well, I already mentioned Red Faction: Guerrilla as being one, and Just Cause is another. RF: G especially. I think the next big revolution in shooting games and action games as a whole is destructible environments. And RF: G features the best one to date. Being able to dismantle a house brick by brick is just amazing. And when you fracture that into combat, you get a layer of depth unheard of in the sandbox genre.

3. Environment interaction. I always said while playing games like GTA that I want to put bodies in the trunk of my car. Make it happen.
Plus it's fun to just experiment with all the possibilities. Experimentation is what makes a sandbox game a good sandbox game.

so is this going to be like "Infernal Affairs" the game?

1 & 2. Yakuza 3

To me, I still believe The Godfather to be very unappreciated and overlooked by many. A share of that is probably because a) it was an EA title, b) it was a license title of the most critically acclaimed film in the history of forever, so its not too suprising. Its fair play to say that the gameplay mechanics, from the shooting to the driving, haven't all aged well in the past few years. When compared to the competition at the time however, I think it deserves some credit where credit is due. But as far as the melee/hand to hand combat goes, its a complete blast to play even to this day.

To give a quick overview, attacks such as punching and kicking are primarily controlled with the right analog stick. You simply locked onto a target and push the right analog stick forward for a light attack, pulled it back to dodge a punch or pulled it back and then pushed foward to perform a heavy attack. The second main mechanic was to grapple a target and then being able to move him around or carry on attacking.

It sounds gimmicky, and seems potentially limited and problematic, but this is far from the truth. You could string light or heavy combos, smash peoples heads into cash registers and tables, swing and throw enemies off ledges and through windows, it was some brutal but satisfying stuff. Hell, you could lock onto a guy with R1, grab him with L1, then push both analog stick in to freaking strangle an enemy to death. C'mon, name me one other game that replicates that level of fucked up awesomeness.

This isn't to say it was perfect. You didn't have control of the camera when in melee combat, and there's always going to be at least a few instances when it'll become a bother. Also, being an open world shooter and not a proper fighting game, melee combat can still end up to be 'button mashy'. But because you're using the right stick instead of tapping a button over and over, it just feels more gratifying in the long run.

I could easily imagine this being updated and put into current gen games. I guarrantee that if this combat system was implemented into GTA IV it would have added far more hours of fun, especially with the Euphoria physics engine. Hell, ideas for adding new combos are coming into my mind. Surrounded by too many thugs? Rotate the stick 360 and Roundhouse Kick the fools.

The Godfather is somewhat of a guilty pleasure of mine and one I don't think many people appreciate or even remember much of at all. But this is a game where the developers made analog stick combat work, and work damn well. Suck on it Denis Dyack.

...I rambled on, didn't I?

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